All kinds Quote by Mary Gaitskill

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings.…

— Richard Greenberg

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become…

— Benjamin Barber

Some people don’t respond to civility.

— James Ellroy

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

— Michel de Montaigne

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is…

— Judith Martin

I think civility is important to getting things done.

— Amy Klobuchar

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there…

— Molly Ivins

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

— Deborah King

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

— David Brooks

It's nice to be nice and a lot of people in this world nowadays don't appreciate being nice to people and we don't treat…

— Paddy Pimblett

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush